Speech #810272735

Speaker. I rise in support of H. R. 10. known as the Hobbs bill. which has as its purpose the deportation of aliens from the United States and provides for the supervision and detention pending eventual deportation of aliens whose deportation cannot be readily effectuated because of reasons beyond the control of the United States. I feel that the passage of this bill is long overdue because of critical conditions that now exist. It is my understanding that the Department of Justice has been urging passage of this bill for a long time. I have read the minority report on this bill. but I feel that the conditions now are considefably changed from the time the report was written. When the Director of Immigration appeared before our Appropriations Committee justifying appropriations for the present fiscal year. he indicated alarm over the fact that he was unable to cope with the alien criminal problem because these alien criminals were allowed to wander over our country at large. He indicated at that time that he needed legislation to cope with this very serious problem. He stated about 300 of these alien criminals had been sentenced by our various courts for deportation because of various crimes committed. Among them were over 100 alien criminals who come from countries behind the iron curtain and each one of these approximately 100 alien criminals was reported in the Department files as subversives or Communists. He expressed alarm over the fact that these allensubversiveCommunist criminals appeared to be well supplied with funds and were wandering over our country at will. He thought at that time it was absolutely necessary that a law be passed giving the Attorney General the power to incarcerate these dangerous alien criminals until such time they can be deported. Only a few days ago. I contacted the Department of Immigration again and asked for the status of these approximately 100 allen criminals from behind the ironcurtain countries. and I was informed that the situation was worse at this particular time than it was 6 months ago because the Department had lost track of at least 20 of them. The addresses of some other were not known. In other words. we have at this time the names of 102 alien criminals recorded as subversives and Communists. well supplied with funds. who are wandering around the country at will. but we do not know where all of them are.